I believe what you're running into is the fact that when reading from the user via <> is that you're getting new lines, as well. So when you give it "c:\temp" and hit enter, $dir is filled with "c:\\temp\n".

I suggest the following modification to your code: 

$dir = <>; # get directory from STDIN
chomp $dir ; # get rid of trailing new line!
$dir =~ s/\//\\/g; # clean up the path a bit
opendir(DIR,"$dir") or die "Can't open '$dir' $!" ; # open directory $
+dir
@files = readdir(DIR); # read directory contents into @files
closedir(DIR);

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The addition of die is to make sure you get a message about why it's not working, pinpointing what's wrong. You could use warn instead and put that in a loop, waiting for a valid dir or some such. Just an idea =)

-Ducky

In reply to Re: Can't seem to see the problem here... by ducky
in thread Can't seem to see the problem here... by Anonymous Monk

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